Heartbeat

Part 4: Inside the Heart Centre

Heartbeat

St. Paul’s Hospital nurse Jennifer Kealy was looking for a better way to support patients with implanted heart pumps. But many patients come from outside Vancouver, and had great difficulty attending monthly support-group meetings at St. Paul’s. “It didn’t make sense to make patients come back to the hospital for support — we wanted them to be in their homes,” Kealy says.

Dr. Doris Kavanagh-Gray was just a girl of 17 in the early 1940s when she decided to become a doctor. Straight out of high school, she had no university degree, but she had smarts and guts and applied...

True or false: that portly 50-year-old stockbroker trundling along Howe Street is more likely to die of a heart attack than his equally chubby wife. False. British Columbia women 55 and younger are more...

Richmond lawyer Craig Watson no longer looks like a bloody, sawn-open carcass. Four days after open-heart surgery to install a titanium pump in his failing heart, the 45-year-old married father of three...

British Columbians of South Asian descent are far more likely to have heart attacks than Caucasians. This finding from St. Paul’s Hospital researchers illustrates one of several striking differences...

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